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I have three of the gourd vases: all uranium, all with a fine stretch (crackle) finish, fire polished rims and polished pontil marks although all very slightly different. Maybe it's an age difference thing.

I'm just dashing out, but I've found my other one, firepolished rim, uranium glass, has a slightly different colouring green, a little warmer where this one and the one I sold are blue ier, but the finish on the iridescence is exactly the same as this one, no crackly finish/stretch effect finish, completely smooth.

Interestiing.. I will have a ponder on the way to the train station m

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'Glatt refers to the smooth finish on these pieces....' and also 'These came in many colors, including Creta, Olympia (a very pale green), Bronce (bronze), Luna (blue top fading to clear at the bottom) as well as some others.'

Therefore making an assumption here, that on that basis, my vases (at least the two that have the cut rim) may be Loetz Olympia Glatt - where Olympia refers to the colour and Glatt the decor.

I'm not entirely sure where that leaves my other uranium Olympia but I think that must also be Loetz Olympia Glatt.And yours are called Loetz Olympia then? I'm not quite sure where that leaves my little vase with the same surface finish but a different colour but at least it seems the difference in our pieces is cleared up m

thanks. . I've not managed to find a reference so far that says Fritz Heckert enamelled on Loetz blanks - that's not saying anything I know , I'm probably missing something blindingly obvious, but just musing re info on my vase. It says in Truitt's that they initially used Josephinenhutte blanks to enamel on and in 1889 acquired their own glass hut and began to produce iridescent glass decorated in the Art Nouveau style (ref Truitt's Bohemian Glass 1880-1940 page 70). I'll keep looking and thanks for the form number.m